Tommy Siegel | Bluesky

TranscriptThe Jeopardy host stands in front of a puzzle that reads: IS THIS YOUR FL_SHLIGHT?

In the lower right hand corner a Picture-in-Picture view shows a contestant tugging at his collar and sweating over how to answer. His score is $10,000

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[–] 1 point 11 hours ago

Is there enough of an audible difference between flash and flesh?

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  • [–] 28 points 23 hours ago

    Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... it's a dildo. Of course company policy is never to imply ownership in the case of a dildo. We have to use the indefinite article: a dildo, never your dildo.

    -- Fight Club

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    Is this why we need the Γ¦?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    That is simple, Fleshlight is a product and would be an uppercase at the start while flashlight is lowercase at the start ... simple πŸ‘€

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

    Not necessarily. Is fleshlight an actual brand or the general name of the product?Because if there's other brands all labeled as "fleshlight" then it's lower case.

    Like dildo is lower case because that's the general name, there's no Dildo brand Dildo as far as I've seen.

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  • [–] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    lol I was making a bad joke about how it's all uppercase regardless so my advice is completely useless

    you do have a point though ... we take name brands sometimes and put it into our regular lexicon many times I think xerox is a good example as well.

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  • [–] 6 points 22 hours ago* (2 children)

    Xerox the first aid instructions about putting Vaseline under your Band-Aid and wiping away the excess with a Kleenex before securing with Bubble Wrap. Then you can return to playing Frisbee on your Jet Ski. Remember to bring your Thermos (you can secure it with Velcro and remind yourself with a Post It). Get all the trash to the Dumpster when you're done.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    That is indeed my flushlight!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    i want to know how he got the question mark up there

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    Is it too late to ask the host if the category is tools, or toys?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    what is the problem with saying: is this your flashlight?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Not sure if joking or u really don't know what the other word is lol

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Um flashlight? That's what Americans call torches, right? Even though they don't flash and are usually a constant beam...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    U really don't know the other possibility?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Category: Questions you don't want to be asked after a crunch in the dark

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  • I'd like to buy a vowel

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    One of those β€œemphasis can be placed on any word” sentences.

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  • [–] -1 points 21 hours ago

    Here I was about to suggest that there might be a water-saving Welsh toilet product spelled "flwshlight", but they spell "flush" as "fflysi...", (which is basically a borrowing from English with Welsh orthography) so "flwsh" would be highly non-standard (and frankly smacks of a clueless Saxon aping their language... which is fairly apt as it happens, given this comment.)

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